Part 33 (1/2)

Well at Woodhall 9

Wells, saline, elsewhere 8, 10, 87, 99, 201, 256, note

Welles, Lord, beheaded 214

Wharf, meaning of 11 and note

White-Hall Wood murder 18

Wife-selling 181 and note

William de Karilepho 196 ,, de Romara 152

Willoughby, Lord, of Knaith 132

Winceby, fight at 190

Winchester, Bishop of 221, 235

Wispington 175, 176

Witham, ran to Wainfleet 104 and note ,, a sacred stream of Druids 102 and note

Wolds 27, 258 and notes

Wong, Horncastle 187

Woodc.o.c.k 35, 36

Wood Hall, the 126

Woodhall (Old) Church 200, 201 ,, water discovered 9 ,, Lines on 8 ,, Properties of 98, 99

Woodp.e.c.k.e.r, three kinds 41

Wry-neck 47

Footnotes:

{5} Mr. Parkinson resided at the Hall, Old Bolingbroke, or Bolingbroke, as it was called at that date, the prefix not being then needed to distinguish the old historic market town from its modern offshoot, New Bolingbroke. Old Bolingbroke is noted for the ruins of its ancient castle, where Henry IV. was born, and long ago gave a t.i.tle to the earls ”of that ilk.”

{8a} Tradition avers that, shortly before this accident occurred, an old woman pa.s.sing near the mine heard a raven-(doubtless a carrion crow)-croaking ominously as it sat on the bough of a tree hard by, and that it distinctly uttered these words, ”carpse, carpse, carpse” (_i.e._, corpse), and this she regarded as a certain presage of some fatal occurence. Truly the age of witches and warlocks was not yet pa.s.sed.

{8b} Mr. John Sharpe was father of the late Mrs. Michel Fynes and a relative of Mr. James Sharpe, of Claremont House, Woodhall Spa.

{8c} In Lincolns.h.i.+re dialect ”heard” is commonly p.r.o.nounced so as to rhyme with ”appeared,” and this is said to be nearest the Saxon p.r.o.nunciation.

{8d} This was at the time of the Peninsular War, with its prolonged sieges and fearful carnage.

{9a} Mr. John Marshall, grocer and draper.